Cash Or Trade…Or Just Go For Free Why Dontchya?

Like a crafty guerilla war leader, nobly leading his outmatched troops into battle against the forces of oppression, the good folks at Cash or Trade have decided to utilize the only advantage they have in their ongoing struggle against ticket scalping–knowledge of the home turf. In this case the home turf is you and I, the fan, and their knowledge of us is both simple and true. Namely, we love free shit. And so, in an effort to bring more of us into the fold, they have announced a giveaway of two free tickets–Mike in Brooklyn and Trey in Albany–to two lucky so-and-sos who manage to get three friends to sign up for an account on their site.

I know, if we all had that many friends we wouldn’t be spending our time reading blogs, right? Well I checked with them and it turns out that the three people you get to sign up don’t even have to like you or even know you, really. So now there’s no excuse, go forth and win those tickets already.

Here’s the official announcement:

As we emerge from a very snowy winter here in the northeast, Dusty and I have decided to start the year off right by saying thanks. We appreciate all the support in the face value community over the past 2 years. You all have been amazing at helping us spread the word.

So…continuing with that charge, we are giving away 2 tickets to both Trey and Mike shows to TWO lucky people who get 3 or more friends to sign up at CashorTrade.org.

First place: 2 tickets to Trey Anastasio at the Palace Theater, Albany, NY on 2/19/11
and
Second Place: 2 tickets to Mike Gordon at the Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn, NY on 3/22/11

It’s simple….tell 3 or more friends to sign up at CashorTrade.org and at the bottom of the registration form make sure they enter your Username (spelled correctly of course). You will then be automatically entered into a random drawing to win these tickets. There will be two drawings. One for first place and one for second. Once it gets rolling, we will post the members in the pool so you can know your odds.

One last thing. Each friend who signs up will need to fill in at least 50% of their profile 🙂 We want real members. Members who will be there when you need a ticket for face value….get it?

Just another way CashorTrade thanks you for Embracing the Face!
Brando and Dusty

7 thoughts on “Cash Or Trade…Or Just Go For Free Why Dontchya?”

Again, this is a site is completely for FREE. We are doing everything we can to match up honest members to help make trading tickets easier and safer. We get nothing out of it, other than the satisfaction that people are getting inside. To date we have not made one penny running this site.

We honestly do not recall getting any emails and can only imagine they went to spam. We are very interested in keeping in close contact with all the experiences. Good or bad. It is the only way we can modify the site to become better. We have 3 facebook pages, 2 twitter account, 2 emails, our website, blogs, etc. We are all over the net and just too easy to contact. At this point I have still yet to hear back from Tubegal explaining her situation. Please contact me privately to discuss what happened and who this happened with. I can not allow members to stay on our website if they back out. Please provide me with this person’s username so I can ban them for life. Also, please make sure to leave this person a bad review on their account. If this person aims to rip people off we need to protect other from them. Again, please contact me so we can begin to let true fans know who this person is and not to trade with them.

Yes, If this happened to Tubegal back in the summer of 2009, (2 years ago) our site was only live for a couple months at that time. It was brand new. Since then we have added many features to help curb such situations. ie. the review section, flagging, profile details, phish.net show list etc. Our new site will make committing to a trade more concrete and backing out will result in penalties. Stay tuned.

In the end, I feel publicly blaming a bulletin board website for a bad apple in the mix seems wrong. As I said before….when people get screwed on craigslist or ebay (and it happens all the time) do you hear anyone blame the website? No. So saying that these are better websites to go to makes no sense when it is obviously a large pool of anyone, not fans, straight up scalpers……and there are no tools to better choose who to deal with.

Anyway…thanks for your posts. Lets just work together to create a strong community of fans who can be trusted and who take care of each other.

Here is the b0ttom line with what happened with tubegal and I when we used your site to get Merriweather Tixx 09 and SPAC 09 tixx…

1st. your site is great to try to find phans to trade or buy tixx from for shows u need tix for !! .. Agree its a great community and I am sure your site has helped many Phans in need of tixx…

BUT what happened with tubegal and I was an awful situation and just another bump in the road , lesson learned.. whatever.. .. Obv we r n0t asking for ANYTHING in return from COTFYE.com as this happened in 2009 .. but what we d0 want to make aware to the community is that there are people out there who do take advantage and just a reminder to everyone that U should always l00k out and make sure the people you are making a transaction with are legit.. .

And CashOrTrade4yourExtra..Weather you remember or n0t we sent multiple emails to the site moderator complaining about the person who took our money.. we never heard any response to it !!

I’ve had great experiences with CoT. Most of the kids I’ve met through there have been straight. I got burned by some girlie for a NYE tix there but honestly, it is definitely one of the better sites. My only complaint is in the site design which can be cumbersome to navigate and the fact that I can’t get into my phish.net acct to finish my profile. But beyond that I appreciate what you kids are doing and I want to say thanks.

We have been very fortunate with tickets the last couple of years and have not needed to buy or sell via cashortrade, but I am a member. I am constantly looking there to help out our friends and I have always encouraged them to use the site and will continue to do so. Not to mention it’s where I found out about Jennifer Kahn’s awesome jewelry & those sweet MSG mugs!!! Unfortunately there will always be some bad eggs out there tubegal. Hopefully now that this has been brought to Brando and Dusty’s attention, you’ll be willing to give the site a second chance. It’s a wonderful tool for honest fans who just want to share in the love of music.

First off, as the admin for CashorTrade.org I have been extremely timely at returning every single email or inquiry that has ever been sent to us. Our track record is impeccable. I have received hundreds of supportive emails thanking us for our incredible response time. In fact, read through what fans say on on Phish.net and PT. Our members have been very loyal and quite thankful for our service. I have actually never heard a bad review whatsoever, until now. Tubegal, I never received your email. This I promise. If you did contact me I would have taken extreme measures to ban the other from the website for life and to contact them in regards to your trade. I ask you…did you even leave this person a bad review? Or did you just blame the website and not the person you chose to trade with?

Second, this is a free service my brother and I have designed for you all. I think it is extremely funny to hear this person mention that getting tickets on Craigslist is better. Now who would you contact on Craigslist if you got ripped off? Huh, who? Would you stop using Craigslist if you did? Are there reviews of each member on Craigslist so you can better choose who to trade with? The answer….NO. There isn’t. People get screwed everyday on Craigslist and I never once hear anyone actually blame that website itself….instead they blame the people they trusted on the site.

Third, CashorTrade.org is a website much like Ebay and Craigslist. It is a simple bulletin board that allows anyone to sign up and post their tickets to buy, sell or trade. WE PROVIDE YOU THE TOOLS TO MAKE A BETTER DECISION! Unlike Ebay and Craigslist, we have created a community of fans, and given you each the tools to better choose who to trade with.
1) Does the member have solid 5 star reviews?
2) Does the member have any similar friends on CashorTrade?
3) Does the member supply their Facebook and/or Twitter Link?
4) Does the member have a Phish.net show list so you can see how true of a fan they really are?
5) Does the member have a full profile with their ‘about us’ info filled out including their address and phone number?
6) Does the member have previous trades posted?
7) Does the member have Photos of themselves. At a show maybe?
8) Does the member have any “FLAGS” on their account showing they have been tagged for an over face value post or untrustworthy behavior?
Now if anyone asks themselves these 8 questions above and finds they can’t answer these with a truthful YES, then you are taking trading into your own hands and may be taking a risk. Does Craigslist offer you these options to better choose your trade?

I could go on here…but for now, Tubegal, please email me at info@cashortrade.org . I would love to hear more about your story and what went wrong, who you traded with, and if you left them a bad review.

CashorTrade.org has been around since Feb. 2009. It has grown significantly since then. Many features are under way and in fact we have a brand new site coming out soon. Thanks for listening.

Lastly, this is a full ticket giveaway. We have given away tickets in the past. 4 Tickets to Red Rocks in the summer of 09. We always post our winners. Stay tuned!

For the rest of you honest fans, thank you so much for an amazing 2 years of face value tickets. You all rock.
Brando

ps. If you have a positive story we would love to see those posted here too. Otherwise check Phish.net and PT and the CashorTrade reviews. There are over 1000 positive reviews posted and I receive 5-10 more each day! Thank you for embracing the face.

While I’m sure most people appreciate the information about free tickets, I must warn everyone. Cashortrade.org is the WORST website I have ever been to. I was unfortunately gullible enough to buy some tickets on there summer 2009 for Merriweather and SPAC. I’m pretty sure we even paid over face. We talked to the guy a couple of times and he was always kind of weird saying things like “I’ll mail them next week.” and then immediately after saying “I’ll meet you at the show.” Since we don’t travel without tickets we offered to add extra money for shipping costs and still got shady responses.

2 weeks before the show, we decided to write admin of cashortrade.org a letter asking for help in the situation. We now still needed tickets, and our money was long gone. The guy we bought them from stopped all communication completely. We asked simply for our money back several times. We contacted cashortrade admin several times… NEVER receiving a response.

We were fortunate enough to find tickets through another outlet, but to this day I have never heard back from the website, and am still out the few hundred dollars.

I feel if you run a website for trades, you should take responsibility for things that go wrong, or at least respond and tell us that you are completely negating any responsibility. Craigslist and PT are better outlets to find tix than cashortrade

So, buy at your own risk, but I don’t think it’s very nice to try and get friends to sign up for a bogus website just so you can get free tix. (If those free tix even exist)
That’s my 2 cents.